Thomas Whitaker and Jemima Edgemon
Photo courtesy of Helen Whitaker Johnson and her son Tony Johnson.
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Sources: Most of the info below was compiled by Carolyn Whitaker from public records and interviews with Helen Whitaker Johnson.
Thomas PARENTS MAY HAVE BEEN RICHARD WHITAKER AND RACHEL BENTLEY OF WASHINGTON CO VIRGINIA
Note: This is not our Thomas land grant but used for collecting data for future use.
Ref: North Carolina Land Grants Recorded in Greene Co. Tennessee, Pg 135 (abstracted at the Filson Library, Louisville, Kentucky) 12 Jan 1793
Abstracts of North Carolina Land Grants, Greene Co. Court House, Greene Co. Tennessee, Vol I, Book 3, pg 418, No. 1163
Thomas Whittaker - 200 acres on Blacks Creek running to Lick Creek, adjoining John and James Gillaspy, Richard Dobbs Spraight at Newbern
Washington Co Tenn War of 1812
Colonel William Johnson, Colonel Samuel Bayless
Captain Andrew Lawson's Company
(20 September 1814 - 3 May 1815)
Lawson, Andrew; CPT
Miller, Peter; 1LT
McKee, Robert; 2LT
Humphreys, Lesly; 3LT; disch 25 September 1814
Buckingham, Thomas C.; SGT
McCray, Philip; SGT
Lyon, Asher; CPL
McNeal, John; CPL
Arwood, John; subst for Jesse Arwood
Balenger, James
Ball, Joseph
Been, Russel; subst for Cullen Cotton
Bell, Joseph E.
Bitner, Samuel
Bowman, William
Brown, David
Brown, Jacob
Brown, Solomon
Boring, Greenbury; subst for Henry Bowers
Collins, Jonathan; subst for Thomas Thacker
Douglas, Thomas
Early, Samuel
Early, Thomas; subst for Jacob Varner
Edwards, Morgan; subst for John King
Ellit, Thomas T.W.; disch by doctor 24 September 1814
Fawbush, Thomas; subst for Henry McCracken
Flowers, William; subst for Urias Martin
Ford, Horatio; subst for Valentine DeVault
Gaines, John
Gaines, Joshua; subst for Ephraim Drake
Gann, Joshua; subst for William Patton
Guinn (Gunn), William
Hale, Bird
Hale, James
Hathaway; Abraham; disch 24 September 1814
Henry, Eli
Holtsinger, John
Huffman, Jacob
Jackson, Isaac; subst for Benjamin Jackson
Justus, John
Kennedy, Isaac
Kirk, George; subst for Asa Eppis
Martin, James
Massingale, George
May, Peter
Mitchell, James; reported sick at home
Mitchell, Nelson; subst for Thomas Mitchell
Nelson, James; subst for James Harvey
Nelson, Southway
Robertson, Enoch
Rogers, Elijah; subst for Enoch Job
Rogers, Jeremiah
Ryland, John; subst for Joseph Shields
Sands, Edmund
Shipley, James; subst for Joseph Crouch
Simpson,James
Sliger, Adam; subst for Henry Sliger
Somers (Sowers), William
Springs, James; subst for James Ford
Squibb, Caleb
Teague, Jacob; subst for Zacheus Routh
Tharp, James
Thresher, Isaac; subst for David McGinnis
Tittle, John
Trotter, Joseph
Whitlock, John
Williams, Green
Whittiker, Thomas
Williams, James
War of 1812 Pensioners pg 1822
Thomas Whittiker, Jemima (Edgman) WC 975 married 25 April 1813 Washington Co Tennessee, SD 3 Jan 1869, Greene Co Tenn.
Served Capt Andrew Lawson's Company Tenn Militia - private, widow lived Washington Co Tenn 1871
War of 1812 Widow's pension claim no 853 Jemima Whittaker filed 8 Jul 1871
Soldier Thos Whittaker served in Capt Andrew Lawson's Co Tenn Militia
Warrant no 20801 80 55 from Sept 1814 to 9 May 1815
Jamima states she married Thomas Whittaker 25 April 1813 by Isaac White, a Justice of the Peace in Washington Co Tennessee at the residence of Esqr White, Washington Co. Tennessee
That her said husband died in Greene Co Tennessee on the 3rd day of Jan 1869
The East Tennessee Historical Society First Families of Tennessee Certificate Application
File 9842-1 White date 20 Dec 1996 Evelyn Stiles Hatcher, 317 E. Heritage Drive, Knoxville, Ten 37922
Document submitted with application states: data from J. R. Smith, Jeraldstown, Greene Co., Tenn 1935 - Cemetery near Fall Branch, Washington Co. Tenn is where Thomas Whitaker is buried., Private War of 1812
1830 Washington Co Tenn pg 247
11| Thomas Whitaker
1 male under 5 Jesse age 2
2 males 5 - 10 (born 1825 to 1820) Amasa age 9 (still missing one boy)
2 males 10-15 yrs (born 1815 - 1820) Winton age 13, William age 12
1 male 40 to 50 yrs Thomas age 42
1 female under 5 Rachael age 3
1female 5 - 10 Mary Ann age abt 5
1 female 10 - 15 yrs Nancy abt 10
1 female 30 - 40 yrs Jemima age 40
1840 Greene Co Tenn pg 68 img 134 (same page with Richard White)
Thos Whitaker
1 male under 5 born 1835 - 1840 Stephen age 3
1 male 5 - 10 born 1830 - 1835 Joseph age 7
1 male 10 - 15 born 1825 - 1830 Richard age 10
1 male 15 - 20 born 1820 - 1825 Jesse age 12
1 male 50 - 60 born 1780 - 1790 Thomas age 52
1 female 5 - 10 born 1830 - 1835 Elizabeth age 8
2 females 10 - 15 b 1825 - 1830 Nancy age 18, Rachel age 13
1 female 40 - 50 born 1790 - 1800 Jemima age 50
1850 Greene Co Tennessee 9th div, 12 Dec 1850 household 1833
Thomas Whitaker 66 farmer Va
Jamima 56 Tn
Nancy 25 Tn
Rachel 23 Tn
Jessee 20 Tn
Elizabeth 18 Tn
Richard 16 Tn
Stephen 14 Tn
John 4 mos Tn
household 1835
Barnett Baxter head of household
G. H. Whitaker 24 Virginia (Note: Granville H. Whitaker was from Wythe Co. Virginia, the son of Nathaniel Whitaker b abt 1792 Virginia and Elizabeth Hicks)
1860 Greene Co Tenn, Civil Dist 17, pg 60 household 362b, Graysburg PO household 429
Thomas Whitiker 75 Va real estate 500 personal 300
Gemima 65 Ten persons over 50 yrs of age who cannot read or write
Mary Blackly 13
Helen Whitaker Johnson
Various written documentation in the family of Richard Whitaker records Thomas Whitaker, his father, as "Hargis Whitaker". The great granddaughters Dessie & Cathlean Whitaker believe it is his nickname.
Carolyn Whitaker:
The Family Bible that was in the possession of Dessie & Cathlean Whitaker which was their grandfather's Richard Whitaker, record him as Tomas Whitaker born Jan 26, 1788 died Jan 16, 1869. Dessie & Cathlean knew he was called Hargis, but also aware his name recorded as Thomas. I have taken photographs of the family bible of Richard Madison Whitaker and these are now in possession of Helen Whitaker Johnson.
Personal interview with Dessie & Cathlean Whitaker by Helen Whitaker Johnson named the following children of Thomas Hargis Whitaker & Jemima Edgemon as "Wint"; William; Mary; Jemima; Joseph; "Rach" (Rachel); Jess; "Aunt Nan Blakely" (Nancy); Richard (their grandfather); "Liz" (Elizabeth); & Stephen (and they'd say they don't know where his name came from). They didn't believe John was a child of Thomas & Jemima, because they never knew of him.
Dessie & Cathlean also told Helen Whitaker Johnson that Joseph Whitaker was in Newport. They always referred to it as being just Newport, not as Cocke Co. They used to love to go shopping in Newport and made numerous trips there.
Subj: [Fwd: [TNGREENE] William K. OR R. Hudson and Eliza Gammon]
Date: 6/28/01 11:07:19 AM Central Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Phil) To: [email protected] (Whitaker, Caoline)
Caroline, Can not help you with the Hudson's. But noticed your last name of Whitaker. I have some cousins still in Greene county whose last names were Whitaker. Their Father was Albert Whitaker. Was born about 1910? That is all I know of him. His 2 daughters are not into Genealogy even though I have tried to get them into it. Phil M Bowser
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/3741/fellow_whitaker_researchers.htm#Nathaniel
80.) Nancy O'Neil is researching the line of Thomas Whitaker was born in Virginia ca. 1792. He married Jemima Edgeman in Washington County, Tennessee in 1813. They lived and died in Greene County, Tennessee. Believe Thomas' parents were Quakers. One of Thomas' sons was Joseph W. Whitaker. Joseph married Mary Eliza Hudson, the daughter of Rev. William B. Hudson, a Methodist minister.
